I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
FLORENCE PUGHI’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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